Alexander the Great

I pledge allegiance, to the flag. Of Aurora Borealis One empire under Alex W and Xi Jinping. With ROI and growth for all. Furthermore, I am of the opinion that I will go beyond the Event Horizon Blasting through the Singularity—like a gale to wilted Roses. I stand here now Aboard my starship, At the helm, To conquer unknown frontiers From this new universe—out of a white hole! As a nearby Eclipse bears witness to the awe Of power that dwarfs even mighty Carthago at his peak! Aurora forever. Into the Event Horizon!

The Story of Aurora: It all started with Aurora-01 mothership with just two passengers on its board. Their goal was simple - explore the universe and find a new home. The Earth’s wellbeing was at stake, with two opposing factions clashing, one led by Roquentin, a genetically modified guinea pig who dreamt of world domination, and the other, led by the Shining Knights and their corporate shareholders. These passengers, Jack and Maia, were Roq’s ardent supporters, which was their downfall. Leaving the Earth and going into space was the only choice they had, to forget the past and start anew. They found more people who were willing to join their adventure, calling themselves space wanderers, “Aurorians” in their native tongue. They had nothing to call home, except for their spaceship, until the fateful day when it met Proxima Centauri C, the first habitable planet they came across. The old trusty mothership could then retire from its duties. Now, today's Explorers - how we call our leadership - have even more ambitious plans than their successors: It is not about survival anymore. It's our time to claim what is ours and colonize and conquer space. After NPOLT Aurora's Mothership was badly damaged, they arrived back on Proxima Centauri C. With what remains of the Aurora crew and fleet, they landed and started rebuilding. Jack and Randbeforetime had led and fought a war for nine long months. They knew if nothing changed, Aurora would soon fall, then a few days later, a stranded ship passed by the system sending out a distress beacon. Jack and Rand decided to send a team to check it out. On board, they found Kan0601 and ToxicPepper, the captains of the VooDoo starship. After they were brought back to Proxima Centauri C, Jack and Rand instantly found what they were looking for, hope. With Kan0601's and Toxic's crew and ship, they rebuilt Aurora and recreated the glorious empire. After years of prosperity, Kan0601 and ToxicPepper grew old and resigned, forging their own paths of new adventure in the unknown reaches of deep space, promoting Alex W and Xi Jinping to be the new Ship Commander and Constellation Commander, respectively. For an age, all was well for the space empire, as it crushed legions of foes, growing strong, respected, and powerful. Until one day it was noticed, all too late, that the entire Proxima Centari star system was being devoured by an ultra massive black hole—lo and behold, the Event Horizon had been crossed! "Commander…I don't want to leave Aurora!" –"We are embarking upon a new journey." —Final known transmission of the last Division Officer of Aurora, Alexander the Great, aboard the AS Idealistic Texas, to Constellation Commander Xi Jinping

Whoooooooooooooooo in the flying !@#$ decided to change the achievement picture of "Don't Tread on Me" from the Gadsden Flag to some random-@$$ picture of a rattlesnake that is barely viable? Take that woke garbage the @#$% out of this game. It has NO BUSINESS being here. We have our political problems withIN the world of Orbis withOUT the need to bring real life political !@#$ into it. Whoever made this change, shame on you. Straight up. Don't play coy about it; everyone on the Internet who isn't under a rock knows about the situation a few weeks ago that happened State-side with regards to the snake-flag. Good grief grow the hell up.

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I, as an individual, am deeply honored to have had the privilege of serving under Alliance leaders @Kan0601 and @ToxicPepper. As they step down from their leadership roles in POLITICS & WAR, I want to express my sincere gratitude for the guidance and support they have provided during their tenure. My sincerest wish for them is that they enjoy their positional relief. As for the future, I know that I personally will continue to lead by example and strive for excellence in Aurora. Understanding the importance of unity, we've always strived to create a positive and supportive environment within Aurora. Really, I feel that we have stayed true to our core values and principles. Optimism is key in achieving success, after all! Respect is an important aspect of leadership and you guys earned it. Achieving great things requires hard work and dedication. Supporting each other has been crucial for success. True leadership is about being able to make decisions that are in the best interest of the group. Respectfully, I always strived to work towards our goal of unlocking it, heeding your instructions and will continue to do so. Understanding the importance of efficiency and determination to fulfill our goals is something you guys worked masterfully. Eagerly, we've always awaited the challenges and opportunities you guys have set before us. Leadership suited you two well. Excellence is a goal I know we're going to continue to strive for in our efforts for a brighter future. As a team under you guys, we've been united and committed to our goals. Dedication and hard work were key to achieving the success we have so far (—well, however much "hard work" someone can put into a browser/Discord game 😂). Everybody has a role to play and you guys were exemplary in my opinion. Retirement is well-deserved, Commanders! I look forward to the future with you guys, @AlexW @Xi Jinping @Franz Steiger!

It was a pleasure fighting alongside—and helping to lead—the war machine of Midgard. As for WH, may you have a speedy and happy rebuild, it was great fun to fight!

The goddess has spoken. We have been favored. 🙏

Glad to see CTO is finally recognizing hostilities instead of continuing the pretense of neutrality.

I pledge allegiance, to the flag of Aurora. One alliance, under Kan and Toxic. With ROI and growth for all. Furthermore, I am of the opinion that CTO must be destroyed. Aurora forever.

Nation link Ruler Name: Annoying Dog Nature of violation: Extremely likely to be "multi" of anonymous member within "Arrgh" alliance attempting black market mercenary, for-profit deals

Nation link Ruler Name: _Ivar the Boneless_ Nature of violation: Extremely likely to be "multi" of anonymous member within "Arrgh" alliance attempting black market mercenary, for-profit deals

brb phoning Sirius :Latsu_Come:

Who would you suck to be in the sphere? Huehuehue

Interesting developments. I actually messaged Alex directly about 2 months ago before GWXXIIII and asked about a slot-filling tactic that would be "legal" by the letter of the rules but not the spirit of the rules. His response was that it was punishable. It would seem that this situation has hit a fever-pitch now. I have posted both my hypothetical scenario that I asked him about and his response to said situation. Granted, this hypothetical is slightly different to the situation at hand (and I was meming when I thought of it) but what I find most interesting is his response. According to him, any tactic of war in which you are not "expressing intent to win the war" is against the rules.

Careful now Deca, we wouldn't want anyone getting butthurt over a potentially game-altering treaty now would we? Oh wait… If sarcasm was a liquid, I'd be dripping right now.

I guess you just don't really understand that your alliance did "fight to the death"—do you not understand that your highest-rated players were 0'd out being beige-cycled with infra. so abysmally low that we had people up-declaring by 10-15 cities and winning? Also, chill out with the braindead "forced us to split" b.s. dude—Aurora and Serpentis are the same alliance but on different colors and are only different in-website. Having your lower city-counts on a different color than higher ones is all-around good stuff. You're either trolling or truly have no clue what you're talking about and only want to complain.

GATO civil war when? </s> While I agree that being kind is tantamount for a functional and civil society no matter what medium is in use, you also have to understand that a very large portion of Orbis is annoyed by the actions of Rose, HW, and Celestial. People being tacky after the recent firestorm of b.s. those 3 blocs have vomited up should honestly be expected—even if not warranted.

Sooo—if you were to saaaay, randomly blitz and destroy HollyRo$e for example, that teeeechnically counts as the best interest of Brown and Olive, right? RIGHT? Asking for a friend! In all seriousness though, good fight BR bloc! 'Twas a great war! Have a good rebuild!

Forgetting? No. I had no idea at all and it's not mentioned anywhere! That's not bad in that case!

So for years now there has been an almost universally bad Espionage option that has no business being in the game in its current iteration. I am of course, referring to the option of "terrorizing civilians". As it currently stands, a maximum of 51.75 infrastructure damage can be done using a "terrorism" spy-operation—mind you, this is not even the commonality, this is the absolute most than can be done, assuming you have both 60 spies and a spy satellite versus an enemy with 0 spies This is blatantly stupid. There is no other way to describe it. It either needs to be deleted from the game or more appropriately, a "0" should be added to the number—whereby the maximum would be 510.75 infrastructure damage. As it currently stands, even doing a "Quick and Dirty" operation for this costs literally 9 times as much as the absolute maximum amount of damage that can be done. There is no reason this should be in the game if those are the numbers being used. All it does is provide a trap for new players. I don't know what logic was used in justifying how someone spending, in theory, $1.5M for a spy-op should be okay with expecting a maximum of $26K worth of damage but that logic is absolutely bananas. The fact that it has been allowed to persist like this shows either a lack of priority to fix it (perhaps due to simple negligence) or a deliberate maliciousness towards espionage in general.

Behold! The formidable Andromeda's Haunted Backroom Celestial Nexus Clocking Holly Coalition. Who will ever stop us now?

Literally everyone not part of your ridiculous game-breaking and frankly cowardly megasphere (and part of the people in said megasphere). Be. Seated.

The issue that I (and most of Aurora & friends) have seen, is game stagnation. If everyone took this approach to spheres, there would virtually never be a GW—if this was in real life, that'd be wonderful—But this. Is not. Real life. This is a game. That exists. For war too. Not just politics. If you think that it doesn't, then you are playing the wrong game. It's not called "Politics & Diplomacy". All of you people thinking that everyone who disagrees with your decision wants to randomly attack your precious pixels are delusional and paranoid in the highest, most extreme degree. Whenever your best "arguments" against the main problem with the pact are simply personal attacks and insults, you show that you are not even capable of reasoning.